| _I, _II, _III | I, II, III conjugation |
| <> | infix |
| / | subject/object conjugation |
| (Е) | English loanword |
| (O) | Oriya loanword |
| 1, 2, 3 | 1, 2, 3 person |
| ACC | accusative postposition |
| ABL | ablative postposition |
| ACC.PRON | accusative form of a personal pronoun |
| ADJ | adjectivizer |
| APUD | apudessive postposition |
| APUD.PRON | apudessive form of a personal pronoun |
| CAUS | causative |
| COMIT | comitative postposition |
| COND | conditional modality |
| CVB | converb |
| CVB1 | the first part of the converb composition -ǝn -le |
| DEF | definiteness |
| DELAY | particle of postponed action |
| DIR.ABL | direction away from the speaker |
| DIR.ALL | direction towards the speaker |
| DU | dual |
| EMPH | emphatic particle |
| EXCL | exclusive pronoun |
| IMP | imperative |
| INF | infinitive |
| INF.DIR | infinitive of purpose with motion verbs |
| INSTR | instrumental postposition |
| INTERJ.SONG | rhythmic interjection used in songs |
| INVIS | out of observer’s view |
| LOC | locative postposition |
| NMNL | nominalizer, verbal noun affix |
| NPST | non-past |
| OBL | oblique |
| ONOM | onomatopoeia |
| ORD | ordinal |
| PL | plural |
| PROG | progressive |
| PROH | prohibitive |
| PST | past |
| PTCP | participle |
| Q | interrogative particle |
| RED | reduplication |
| SER.MOV | serialization with motion verbs |
| SG | singular |
| SHF | short form of a noun |
| SUB | subordinative conjunction (complementizer) |
| SUBJ | subjunctive |
| VN | verbal noun |
| VOC | vocative particle |
| VOC.KIN | vocative form of a kinship term |
| VRB | verbalizer, verbal affix |